Ongoing CPO projects.

An update (of sorts) on CPO projects.

By my reckoning CPO have embarked on surveys of the symphonic output of around 46 composers who worked mainly if not entirely in the 20th century. They have completed, ie released all of the symphonies of 31 of these composers.

There are a number of composers who had one or two of their symphonies released but so long ago that it would be possibly realistic to doubt that the company has any plans to record/release any more. These include Karol Rathaus, Eduard Erdmann, Alfredo Casella, Rudolph Simonsen, Natanael Berg and Gunter Raphael. I would certainly not include them in a list of "ongoing CPO projects".

That leaves the following:

Johann Nepomuk David (Austria): two of the seven symphonies appeared in 2014 (Nos. 1 and 6). Oddly enough Mike Herman in his Discographies on Musicweb actually provides the cd label numbers for the recordings of Nos. 2 and 4 and of Nos. 3 and 7 and says that these two cds were released in 2015 (which they certainly were not). However this does seem to suggest that they will be released at some point!

Edvin Kallstenius (Sweden): Symphony No.1 was released in 2014. There are another four to go.

Henk Badings (Netherlands): Symphonies Nos. 2,3,4,5,7,10,12 and 14 have been released. Having told me previously that they had no further plans to continue this "series" they then produced Nos. 4 and 5 in 2015. So....who knows?

Lars-Erik Larsson (Sweden): Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 came out in 2014 and 2015. Again, Mike Herman provides the number of the cd containing Symphony No.3 and the orchestral couplings so I think we can expect this one soon..ish.

Louis Glass (Denmark): Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5 have been released (No.5 only in July) so this is indeed am ongoing series.

Julius Rontgen (Netherlands): the latest release is a cd containing Symphonies Nos. 9 and 21. Although just released the recordings were actually made in 2005 which (if true) would be astonishing even for CPO! There are, of course, a lot of the symphonies still unrecorded (Nos. 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23 and 24) so we might have to wait a very long time......

Felix Woyrsch (Germany): Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 have been released, No. 3 in 2015. There are four symphonies to go.